Chris Cooper

Leeds Beckett University | LEEDS MET · School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience from leading tourism academics and journal editors, this practical How To guide offers clear-sighted advice on how to craft a high-quality paper in terms of contribution, positioning and submission. Accessible and comprehensive, it demystifies the process of getting published in the top tourism journa...

Tourism has been considered a tool for sustainable development (SD) of rural/indigenous communities living within natural protected areas (NPAs) since the 1980s. This article examines the use of tourism as a SD intervention in the management of NPAs. Based on the theory of social change and on the realist methodological approach to social research,...

The Future of Tourism is really a misnomer. If the concept were to be strictly, narrowly understood, it would imply an almost impossible introspective task of primarily considering the endogenous main variables of tourism activity in destinations worldwide… and then, their autonomous progress over time, somehow disregarding global scenarios, trends...

This chapter provides a series of case studies to enhance the chapters in this section of the book, particularly focusing upon how tourism intelligence underpins cultural and social innovation in city tourism and product development. These case studies extend the material and concepts in the chapters by examining the issues in detail. Whilst the ca...

This chapter provides a series of case studies to enhance the chapters in this section of the book, particularly focusing upon two key areas—the changing financing paradigm for innovation and how changing government structures will shape the future of tourism. These case studies enhance the material and concepts in the chapters by examining the iss...

Technological innovation is key to the future of tourism, whether through astrotourism, virtual reality or cutting edge new technologies to reduce energy consumption in the tourism sector. This chapter deals with two sets of case studies: Firstly, astrotourism is examined in detail showcasing this type of future-focus in detail and examining the im...

It is remarkable that the subject of this book—tourism futures—has been territory where few authors have dared to tread. In part this is because the future is subject to so many imprecise and unkownable variables that everything is possible—which is why we think of tourism futures, rather than a tourism future. Besides, tourism is but a thread, alb...

This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format. The who-is-who of tourism intelligence has collaborated to present a definitive blueprint for tourism reflecting the role of science, market institutions, and governance in its innovation and sustainability. The book adopts a comprehensive approach, ex...

This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries. It concentrates on two aspects of Asian Tourism: first, the Asian tourists themselves, and second, economic development and tourism in the Asian region. The first part of the collectio...

A key element in the product mix of destinations is climate. Climate represents a critical part of a destination’s economic and resource base such that changes in climate will trigger human responses in terms of demand and the type of activities that the climate will support. This threatens the competitiveness, sustainability, and economic viabilit...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a contemporary review of the field of tourism and knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach The review draws upon an extensive range of generic knowledge management literature as well as the rather less developed literature on tourism and knowledge management. Findings The review finds that tourism ha...

Research in the area of tourism and climate change adaptation has grown considerably in recent years and increasing attention is being given to how the “tourist destination” can adapt. Given this, it is important to enhance our understanding of the knowledge needs of tourism destinations with regards to climate change and climate change adaptation....

This paper reports on an exploratory empirical study that examined the extent of organizational adaptation of a destination to climate change. Utilizing a case study of a UK island destination, the paper focuses specifically on the way the destination management organization (DMO) acquires climate change knowledge and how it translates this knowled...

This Department has been specifically created to include findings of special significance and problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the state-of-the-art, preferably from the developing societies, will be appreciated. It will also encourage scholars and authors to think against the grain, probing th...

Increasingly it is being recognised that a nation's competitiveness in the global marketplace depends on its ability to capitalise on its intellectual and knowledge-based assets, as opposed to the more traditional commodities. As a consequence, the diffusion and commercialisation of research and intellectual property has emerged as a key issue for...

Globalisation is having a significant impact upon human resource management in tourism. To cope with the international intensity of competition brought about by globalisation, a knowledge-based economy has emerged to replace the previously dominant ‘Fordist’ mode of production. This knowledge-based economy utilises the skills of the workforce to th...

Knowledge management is an established academic subject area but tourism has come to this subject late. Knowledge management can provide tourism organizations and destinations with significant benefits in terms of innovation and competitiveness. The paper provides an overview of knowledge management and in particular a model of knowledge stocks and...

The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses, makes understanding knowledge management challenging....

The book examines the theoretical bases of contemporary real-case development projects and illustrates the way tourism can effectively and efficiently focus on development issues, while minimizing undesired impacts on the natural and cultural environments.

Driven by the rapidly growing number of crises that affect tourism, the study of crisis knowledge management is gaining an increased interest in the tourism field. Effective management of crisis knowledge enhances the resilience of tourism organizations and destinations in crisis situations, strengthens their defense mechanisms, limits potential da...

There is increasing recognition of the need for improved policymaking in tourism and the consequent evaluation of tourism public policies. This paper demonstrates the usefulness of econometric modelling for tourism policy analysis, showing that crucial information is generated from such econometric policy analysis. A dynamic Almost Ideal Demand Sys...

This paper outlines the results of the most recent pan-European survey of timeshare and its owners. The paper begins by placing timeshare in context of the European leisure sector and outlining previous research on timeshare. It then goes on to examine the results of a major survey of timeshare owners and the industry. The results unveil the profil...

There is increasing recognition of the need for improved policymaking in tourism and the consequent evaluation of tourism public policies. This paper demonstrates the usefulness of econometric modelling for tourism policy analysis, showing that crucial information is generated from such econometric policy analysis. A dynamic Almost Ideal Demand Sys...

This chapter discusses the emerging network science approach to the study of complex adaptive systems and applies tools derived from statistical physics to the analysis of tourism destinations. The authors provide a brief history of network science and the characteristics of a network as well as different models such as small world and scale free n...

This book examines the political order and the issues, processes and approaches in applying governance insights to tourist destinations. The book consists of 16 chapters presented in three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the issues and considerations of tourist destination governance. The four chapters in this part address the diversity of q...

International inbound tourism to China has grown phenomenally since 1980 and the hosting of the Olympics in 2008 was an important milestone. This paper takes the first step in applying computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling to forecasting the economic contribution of tourism generated by the Beijing Olympics. CGE modelling has been widely a...

Purpose – The growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding social and economic systems has had, in recent times, an influence on the study of tourism destinations. This paper aims to describe this approach and discuss its theoretical and methodological implications in terms of destination governance. Design/methodology/a...

This paper examines a series of strategic initiatives that have been undertaken by Tourism Queensland (TQ), a State Tourism Organization in Australia, to develop tourism and in particular to develop networks in tourism destinations. This paper firstly examines the nature of sustainable urban tourism (SUT) and discusses approaches to defining it. It...

Tourism is vulnerable to externalities such as natural disasters and man-made crises. The current global economic slowdown has adversely affected global tourism. While headline figures show that international tourism is suffering as a consequence of this economic crisis, domestic tourism is larger in many countries and impacts through this market c...

This paper presents a review of the methods of the science of networks with an application to the field of tourism studies. The basic definitions and computational techniques are described and a case study (Elba, Italy) used to illustrate the effect of network typology on information diffusion. A static structural characterization of the network fo...

This paper examines the organization and governance of the inter-organizational networks of key tourism organizations within the Gold Coast, Australia and how the position of individual stakeholders in a destination network is related to their perceived salience. In this study 22 key organizations identified using a reputation method were interview...

Tourism destinations have a necessity to innovate to remain competitive in an increasingly global environment. A pre-requisite for innovation is the understanding of how destinations source, share and use knowledge. This conceptual paper examines the nature of networks and how their analysis can shed light upon the processes of knowledge sharing in...

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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to present a vocabulary of terms that clearly define knowledge management (KM) activities in order to move towards consensus in the adoption of a common language within the field. Design/methodology/approach Existing literature across several disciplines has been integrated to provide a clear description of the...

This paper reports on an initiative to examine the future of tourism education into the years 2010–2030. A group of 45 senior tourism educators and industry experts came together for a summit at Modul University, Vienna, Austria to discuss how tourism education needs to adapt to significant societal and industry changes. The theme of the summit was...

This book explores the experiences of the volunteer tourist and the ensuing narratives between host and volunteer as it manifests in diverse and increasingly contested political international contexts. As such, this volume includes case studies conducted in 12 countries across six continents. The book is organized into three parts that explore key...